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Schedule
Emerging Leadership: Vision. Action. Evolution.
The Emerging Leader Preconference
June 9-10, 2005
Austin, Texas
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Last updated: May 6, 2005
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| 9:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Setting the Course
OPEN your preconference with remarks by Steven Spiess, chair of the Americans for the Arts Board of Directors and Executive Director, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, New York, New York, and Jennifer Armstrong, chair of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council and Executive Director, 40 North/88 West, Champaign, IL. Facilitators Layton Payne and Paul Menzel, Business Stages, Houston, TX, will then briefly review the goals and structure of the preconference, and members of Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council will lead an icebreaker with all participants. |
| 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. |
Shaping our Emerging Vision for the Arts.
JOIN Marialaura Leslie, vice chair of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council and Chief of Information and Outreach, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL for an interview with Robert Lynch, Americans for the Arts president & CEO, Washington, DC, about his emerging vision for the arts. Stay for the facilitated dialogue with Bob, and devise some of your personal action plan. |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Networking Lunch
EAT, talk, and work those invaluable connections with your peers from next door and around the country. |
| 1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. |
Moving from Vision to Action: Identifying Obstacles and Ways to Overcome Them
IMMERSE yourself in a plenary discussion with Layton and Paul about identifying and overcoming obstacles, then choose your break out, depending on whether you are new to the field of arts administration or are a manager or executive director. In these concurrent sessions, facilitated dialogues hosted by our Emerging Leader Council members will give participants a chance to share their personal visions with their peers, discuss obstacles, and brainstorm strategies for overcoming challenges. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
BREAK |
| 3:15 p.m.–4:00 p.m. |
Keynote: Presentation by Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, children’s author, and songwriter, San Antonio, TX |
| 4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m. |
Empowerment and Influence—Using What You’ve Got
HARNESS your skills in influencing and walk away feeling empowered. Our dynamic facilitators will help participants identify the skills and power they have and strategize on how to use them to influence change in their organizations and communities. |
| 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. |
Preconference Opening Reception
EAT more and keep working on those connections. Or just have some fun. |
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Friday, June 10 |
| 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Roundtables
LEARN about hot topics from members of Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council in informal roundtable discussions for emerging leaders. Don’t touch that snooze bar! We’ll switch topics every half hour, so wake up early, have a cup of coffee, and take this opportunity to participate in four different discussions. Topics include: Generation Gaps, Meeting Facilitation, Working with Boards, Work-Life Balance, Gender Wage Gaps, Diversity in the Field, Creative Fundraising, Mobilizing Emerging Leaders in Your Community, and Developing Your Own Personal Advisory Committee. |
| 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. |
Your Career: Start an Evolution
DIALOGUE. Have you every wondered if you should go back to school? What are the advantages or disadvantages of staying on the job? We’ll start this session with a panel of speakers who can answer these questions and more. Participants will then have an opportunity to get their questions answered and do some personal action planning.
Presenters: Amanda Ault, member of Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council, and Program and Membership Associate, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA; Jerry Coltin, Executive Director, Center for Arts Management and Technology, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Erin Eisenberg, Founder, Policy Coalition on Culture (PCOC), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Deborah Margol, Deputy Director, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL; and Margie Johnson Reese, General Manager, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA |
| 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m. |
Lunch
Keynote: Presentation by Kenny Leon, Artistic Director, True Colors Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA |
| 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. |
Strengthening Your Network: Building Relationships and Networking Skills
EXERCISE your skills on strengthening your network. This facilitated dialogue by Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Animating Democracy Project Co-Director, Americans for the Arts and Layton Payne, Principal, Business Stages will cover everything from developing mentorships and strengthening your networking skills to accomplishing common goals not only with peers in your field, but with leaders in different fields as well. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
BREAK |
| 3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. |
Committing to Your Plan
PLAN your action. You’ve created your vision and discussed steps for action. Now join our facilitators to commit to your personal and professional plan of action. In this session, we will map out how to help your vision evolve into reality and have a lasting impact on the arts. |
| 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. |
Wrappin’ It All Up
CLOSE your preconference with a bang. Austin fiddler Warren Hood will end our preconference on a high note, literally. |
Facilitator Biographies
Paul Menzel is a corporate consultant, trainer, facilitator and mediator. For the last 20 years, he has created corporate communications and learning projects for dozens of clients including several Fortune 500 companies. Part of his consulting work involves writing special theater pieces for business meetings, ranging from murder mysteries to comic business projections to retirement tributes. Paul is also an experienced mediator, facilitating disputes in families, communities and organizations. Mr. Menzel is a principal partner at Business Stages in Houston, TX.
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Layton Payne is a corporate innovation consultant, facilitator, trainer, and performer. He has over 22 years of corporate experience in training & development, organizational development, business development, technology, and geosciences. His primary focus is in helping organizations increase intellectual capital through systemic ideation, from concept-to-customer. He has facilitated groups ranging from small teams to large group interventions (Future Search). The majority of his professional experience revolves around the Energy and Technology industries, training and coaching individuals and facilitating groups in experiential team-building, creative problem solving, sales & communication training, and visual thinking. Mr. Payne is a principal partner at Business Stages in Houston, TX.
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Artist Biography
At the tender age of 22, Warren Hood is quickly becoming the hottest fiddler on the Texas Music scene. Since his recent graduation from the Berklee School of Music and his return to Austin, the state's top musicians are seeking him out as as a sideman. He has played with such luminaries as Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, and Asleep at the Wheel, and is currently playing regularly with Bob Schneider, Kelly Willis, and Toni Price, as well as heading up his own band—the Hoodlums.
Mr. Hood is the son of the late, great Austin musician Champ Hood. Champ was a member of the seminal Austin group Uncle Walts Band, with Walter Hyatt and David Ball. Champ then went on to be in the original Lyle Lovett's Large Band, followed by about ten years as one of Toni Price's indispensable sidemen and leader of the weekly Threadgill Supper Sessions. Anyone who frequented any of these shows would often be treated to the occasional appearance of Champ's young son Warren. At the ages of ten, and twelve, and fourteen you would see Warren Hood sit in with Champ and Toni for Old Fiddlers Waltz, or some old swing tune or favorite Uncle Walt song. Mr. Hood started with classical training at the age of 11, and he is at ease with both the fiddle and mandolin. Mr. Hood won Best of Class twice in the Austin Solo Competition, performed as a soloist with the Austin Civic Orchestra and the Austin Symphony, and was one of the original founders of the South Austin Jug Bands.
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